Community civics and rural life . orsome other. The increase in the number of tenants in theSouthern States (see p. 116) is due in large part to thebreaking up of many larger plantations into small farms whichare occupied by tenants, many of them negroes. That manyof these tenants are on the road to home ownership is indicatedby the facts stated on page 117. It is as much the duty of the home renter as it is of the homeowner to take an interest in the community life in which he andhis family share, and to cooperate with his neighbors for thecommon good. While he lives in the community he is la
Community civics and rural life . orsome other. The increase in the number of tenants in theSouthern States (see p. 116) is due in large part to thebreaking up of many larger plantations into small farms whichare occupied by tenants, many of them negroes. That manyof these tenants are on the road to home ownership is indicatedby the facts stated on page 117. It is as much the duty of the home renter as it is of the homeowner to take an interest in the community life in which he andhis family share, and to cooperate with his neighbors for thecommon good. While he lives in the community he is largelydependent upon it, like any other citizen, for the satisfactionof his wants. Its markets and its roads are his for the trans- 1 B. H. Hibbard, Farm Tenancy in the United States, in Annals of the AmericanAcademy of Political and Social Science, March, 1912, p. 39. WHY GOVERNMENT HELPS IN HOME MAKING 119 portation and disposal of his produce and stock. He gets thebenefit of its schools for the education of his children. He may. Which Family Takes the Greater Interest in the Community ? share in its social life if he cares to do so. His property is pro-tected by the same agencies that protect that of his neighbors. 120 COMMUNITY CIVICS He cannot, therefore, escape the responsibility of contributing to the progress of his community to the extent of his ability. It is as much the duty of the man who rents a farm as it is of the man who owns one to make his farm produce to its full capacity, to protect the soil from exhaustion and between the buildings and fences from destruction. But landlord on the other hand, it is the duty of the landlord, and tenant . , , , , , .,. both as a good business man and as a good citizen, to make such terms with his tenant that the latter will take an interest in the farm and will find it profitable to farm properly. There must be team work. The landlord must be interested not only in his land but in his tenant must be interested not on
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